5 Ways Digital Learning Helps Build Amazing IT Organizations

Success in the idea economy requires technological agility. You have to act quickly to seize opportunity, respond to threats, turn great ideas into reality and stay ahead of the competition – and these capabilities rely on having an amazing IT organization.

Amazing IT teams are competent, aligned to the business, highly collaborative and constantly adapting to change. These attributes just don’t happen. You need talent, you need a continuous education strategy and you need the tools to make it happen. Join this webinar to learn how implementing a continuous education strategy using the new HPE ART Enterprise Learning Edition (ELE) will help your journey to amazing.

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Software Lifecycle Integration Special Interest Group (SIG).

Anyone who has ever attempted to enforce alignment across many domains/projects/teams in order to allow for global reporting will be well aware of its drawbacks and problems.

The list of issues includes:

•Changing processes and tools
•Having to retrain a large number of people
•Delays and disruption
•Resistance from the users and leads who are busy trying to get on with their day-to-day work

In this webinar, we will explore another way of achieving global reporting across different domains by well thought through synchronization.

•Real time reporting with virtually no lead-times
•Teams can keep their own customizations, definitions and processes with no need for change
•No input and hence no time required from team leads/end users
•No disruption, no delays
•No expensive re-training, restructuring, systems changes

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK and Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, as they discuss the ins and outs of founding a tech company.

Topics include:

- Juggling the challenges of being a practitioner, sales rep, marketer and CEO simultaneously
- What to look for in a great vendor partnership
- Application security validation, its trends, and what to look out for

StreamWeaver liberates ‘operations data’ (metric, event, topology, and log) to help IT achieve high availability and optimizing the performance of critical business services. To do this, we automate the distribution of the data from all domains and all clouds to the applications (including Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite – OMi) and teams best positioned to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus

Speakers: Gary Brandt, Saumya Upadhyaya and Carol Park
Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus: Today’s reality is that Hybrid IT demands more from IT Operations. 88% of organizations are sharing data between cloud and on premise applications, and 64% are finding that problem resolution takes longer and is more difficult in these environments. IT Operations teams must be able to visualize, monitor, and remediate issues across virtually any environment before end users are impacted. Please join us to learn how Micro Focus can optimize your Hybrid IT operations.

Here’s what our agenda looks like:

•Learn about how Hybrid IT is changing the demands of IT Operations
•Hear about what’s new in OpsBridge 2018.08
•See an executive demo of automated hybrid IT monitoring with OpsBridge
•Learn how to utilize BVD-in-3 to create business value dashboards in a flash

Speakers: Gary Brandt, Saumya Upadhyaya and Carol Park
Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus: Today’s reality is that Hybrid IT demands more from IT Operations. 88% of organizations are sharing data between cloud and on premise applications, and 64% are finding that problem resolution takes longer and is more difficult in these environments. IT Operations teams must be able to visualize, monitor, and remediate issues across virtually any environment before end users are impacted. Please join us to learn how Micro Focus can optimize your Hybrid IT operations.

Here’s what our agenda looks like:

•Learn about how Hybrid IT is changing the demands of IT Operations
•Hear about what’s new in OpsBridge 2018.08
•See an executive demo of automated hybrid IT monitoring with OpsBridge
•Learn how to utilize BVD-in-3 to create business value dashboards in a flash

Speakers: Nate Rich and Bob Johnson
Easily Get 3rd Party Metric, Event, Topology, and Log Data into Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite (OMi) … in 3 minutes (for real)!: StreamWeaver liberates ‘operations data’ (metric, event, topology, and log) to help IT achieve high availability and optimizing the performance of critical business services. To do this, we automate the distribution of the data from all domains and all clouds to the applications (including Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite – OMi) and teams best positioned to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Voice shopping is estimated to be $40 billion across US and UK. IoT device is ubiquitous and can be found in every (almost) household. IoT ecosystems help in home automation, smart speakers, home security, productivity, and streaming etc. Digital assistants save time and effort.

DevOps tools are cool and are needed for an effective Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. But to achieve the ultimate DevOps win for your company, you need to focus on the people. In this talk, we will cover approaches taken at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to enable a DevOps culture.

Join us for our next exciting Quality and Testing SIG Talk. Listen to expert speakers, who are fellow Vivit members, on important approaches that you can take with DevOps tools and Performance Testing powered by voice.

Speaker: Joe Friedrichsen
Why DevOps Tools Can't Deliver Value: DevOps tools are cool and are needed for an effective Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. But to achieve the ultimate DevOps win for your company, you need to focus on the people. In this talk, we will cover approaches taken at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to enable a DevOps culture.

Speaker: NaveenKumar Namachivayam
Performance Testing - Powered by Voice: Voice shopping is estimated to be $40 billion across US and UK. IoT device is ubiquitous and can be found in every (almost) household. IoT ecosystems help in home automation, smart speakers, home security, productivity, and streaming etc. Digital assistants save time and effort.

In 2014, the founders of VerticalRent (www.verticalrent.com) were featured by Microsoft BizSpark for their early achievements with launching the industry leading rental property management and tenant screening software platform for property managers and landlords. In that article, Microsoft wrote: Matt Angerer is an IT professional by day and a landlord by night. At all times, he has an entrepreneur’s heart and mindset.

A lot has changed since 2014. VerticalRent has more than quadrupled in the sheer number of landlords using the platform from every corner of the United States. The one thing that has not changed is that VerticalRent remains a small operation without employees that epitomizes the concept of a Lean Startup. If you're an IT professional by day who has been toiling with the idea of launching your own "side-gig", you'll want to tune into this BrightTalk webinar to learn how Matt Angerer, Founder of VerticalRent, started with a simple idea and scaled it into a platform that services over 25,000 landlords and nearly 50,000 renters across the United States in 5 short-years -- all while keeping his day job, running his rental properties, and financially supporting a family of 4.

Matt will share with you the techniques he learned that allowed him to balance his personal and professional life to create a software as a service business. In this Webinar, he'll cover:
- The Learn Start Up Mentality - What it Means and How to Live it Day by Day
- Why a Slow-Growth Approach is Better for Certain Personality Types
- How Anyone Can Create a SaaS Platform to Create Side Revenue
- Why SaaS is More Lucrative in the Long-Term than Consulting
- The Darkside of Entrepreneurship and Why Its Necessary

Join us on Wednesday, October 3rd at 9am PT / 12pm ET for this live interview!

In the ever-changing world of Software Testing, the ability to complete more than one task at a time is King. Let me show you how to create enablement content to train employees up or walk them through the next test case or software release, without actually doing anything extra, using a content creation tool called Micro Focus ART.

What you will learn:

•How to record a testing process with minimal additional work
•How to use this testing process to create videos, practice lessons and documentation
•How to use the content to facilitate testing after a new release

Building a Hybrid IT Blueprint – Discover the right mix of public vs. private providers and services for your application portfolio

Many decision makers will say they need more information. The reality is that most leaders are actually drowning in information. What they really need is to move from information to clarity to insight. Attend our talk on building a hybrid it blueprint to see how CloudGenera can quickly take large amounts of data about your applications and provide data-driven analysis on best execution venue. We believe these sorts of insights should happen in minutes not months.

Attendees will learn the following:

•Elements that must be part of Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
•How to analyze public vs. private execution venues
•How to quickly revisit decisions when inputs or market factors change

In this session, Amr will give a small introduction of OpsBridge and then will start with a basic introduction about OpsBridge API. Next, he will give a simple example on how we can call the OpsBridge API’s and start creating custom Attributes in the events. Finally, Amr will do some modifications on Events Custom Scripts.

What you can expect to take away from this session:

•Basic information on how API’s works and the difference between them
•How to integrate third party applications with OpsBridge using API
•Basic Bash Scripts or Python Script depending on the Operation system we will use

Join us for the next IT Operations SIG Talk to hear from Vivit member experts about working with OpsBridge API's and building a Hybrid IT Blueprint for your application portfolio. These two presentations will give in depth insight and takeaways.

Speaker: Amr Fahmy
Work with OpsBridge API’s: In this session, Amr will give a small introduction of OpsBridge and then will start with a basic introduction about OpsBridge API. Next, he will give a simple example on how we can call the OpsBridge API’s and start creating custom Attributes in the events. Finally, Amr will do some modifications on Events Custom Scripts.

What you can expect to take away from this session:

•Basic information on how API’s works and the difference between them
•How to integrate third party applications with OpsBridge using API
•Basic Bash Scripts or Python Script depending on the Operation system we will use

Speaker: Bobby Allen
Building a Hybrid IT Blueprint – Discover the right mix of public vs. private providers and services for your application portfolio: Many decision makers will say they need more information. The reality is that most leaders are actually drowning in information. What they really need is to move from information to clarity to insight. Attend our talk on building a hybrid it blueprint to see how CloudGenera can quickly take large amounts of data about your applications and provide data-driven analysis on best execution venue. We believe these sorts of insights should happen in minutes not months.

Attendees will learn the following:

•Elements that must be part of Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
•How to analyze public vs. private execution venues
•How to quickly revisit decisions when inputs or market factors change

Becoming data-driven means leveraging data as a strategic asset. In a data-driven culture, decisions are made based on timely facts instead of opinion or guesswork. Micro Focus ALM contains invaluable data that should be leveraged in a DevOps transformation and overall metrics framework to provide insight into delivery, planning and trend analysis.
However, this transformation does not happen overnight, but is achieved through a 4 step process,

Over the past 8 years Assure has been at the forefront of business intelligence with our TotalView platform, empowering customers with insights from their ALM data. We are excited to share with you the key practical steps required to unleash the power of Micro Focus ALM data with a demonstration of the benefits of ALM analytics.

The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is upon us. Is your favorite test harness up to the job of testing AI platforms like Graph-based ML or Computer Vision? How can you practically start your journey towards Enterprise AIOps? Leveraging Micro Focus LeanFT to enable Intelligent Automation across Functional API, along with Security and Performance testing utilizing microcontainerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, will help you achieve enterprise grade cognitive adaptive testing.

Based on current market disruptors, we want to give an Introduction into Micro Focus LeanFT. Starting with a short Comparison of LeanFT and Selenium, the main topic will be the integration of LeanFT into existing Selenium solutions. At the end, we will give a few guidelines and ideas for using LeanFT in your projects.

Another exciting Quality and Testing SIG Talk focused around Micro Focus LeanFT will feature speakers from Germany and the United Kingdom. Both of these experts will share their knowledge and experience with Micro Focus LeanFT and how it can be combined with your existing Selenium test automation as well as how it can enable Intelligent Automation (IA).

Speaker: Daniel Horn
Combining Micro Focus LeanFT with your Existing Selenium Test Automation: Based on current market disruptors, we want to give an Introduction into Micro Focus LeanFT. Starting with a short Comparison of LeanFT and Selenium, the main topic will be the integration of LeanFT into existing Selenium solutions. At the end, we will give a few guidelines and ideas for using LeanFT in your projects.

The popularity of blockchain technology is rapidly expanding as both the public and enterprise sector begins to evaluate its reliability and validity. As the blockchain community attempts to address essential shortcomings concerning performance and scalability, a lack of commercially available, professional testing tools acts as a bottleneck preventing the rapid development of viable solutions. The Whiteblock platform provides an easy-to-use and fully configurable testing environment for blockchain systems, protocols, and decentralized applications. This presentation will present the testing methodology developed using this platform as well as summarize the results of testing initiatives conducted within the Whiteblock lab.

The secure, distributed ledger technology that forms the foundation for Blockchain is breaking out as a new foundation for building enterprise applications. The goal of this presentation is to highlight leading Blockchain solutions, the risks and rewards of leveraging Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and how your company can start to leverage Blockchain today.

Telemetry: The essential ingredient to success with Agile, DevOps and SRE:

Measurements, metrics and telemetry enable teams and organizations to deliver successful results with Agile, DevOps and SRE; in order to achieve speed, quality and automation targets with built-in performance, security and resiliency.

Join the Vivit Worldwide channel for unbiased, trusted, and field-tested best practices on Micro Focus Software products and solutions. You’ll also be able to hear from thought-leaders from around the world to help you tune in your day-to-day life to what will be happening in IT in the years ahead.